Reference no: EM132317200

Develop Complex Cascading Style Sheets - Project Assignment

Assessment Task 1 -

Assessment Summary - This assessment requires the learner to develop a Cascading Style Sheet document and test it in all major browsers.

Case Study: Latoya Consultancy sells electronic items such as Laptops, phones and tablets, as well as provides consultancy services such as repairs and installation. The company would like to display the following on their webpage:

• Home page: Introduction to the company.
• Products: List of hardware and software.
• Contact: Address and contact number of the company.

The web developers have completed the web pages. Your task is to create one cascading style sheet file so that it complies with the style specified by the user.

Based from the case study, perform the assessment tasks below.

Assessment Description - This assessment requires the learner to:

• Determine requirements and develop CSS.
• Use advanced CSS techniques to create web pages.
• Ensure web page and CSS are validated and tested in all major browsers.

To demonstrate your competence in this task, you are required to:

• Obtain and analyse user requirements for style.
• Develop CSS to match user requirements.
• Style the elements of a web page, using advanced CSS techniques.
• Position the document elements, using advanced CSS.
• Apply the style sheets to multiple pages in a website.

Assessment Instructions - To accomplish this assessment, follow the instructions below: Download from Moodle and unzip Latoya_Webpage Netbeans project. Open Latoya_Webpage project in NetBeans and run this.

Part A:

1. Create the stylesheet as stated in DD_Latoya_Website.pdf. The file name of the stylesheet is: a1site.css. Once the stylesheet complies with the user requirements, then the student may submit the stylesheet only.

Part B:

1. Validate CSS against industry standards.

2. Test the website in various browsers.

3. Rectify browser differences to ensure that the website is accessible.

Rules: For best results, DO NOT MODIFY the HTML code and other objects such as images in the Latoya_Webpage. There will be no marks awarded/deducted for any changes in HTML code. The stylesheet to be submitted must change style of the UNMODIFIED HTML WEBPAGES based on the user requirements.

Key Requirements - The CSS document must be able to meet the following key requirements:

• The style and format should be according to user requirements.
• Test the web pages in the following browser: Internet explorer and Google Chrome.
• Validate CSS against industry standards.

Assessment Task 2 -

Assessment Description - In this assessment, the learner is required to answer theoretical questions regarding CSS concepts such as principles of website design and Cascading Style Sheet rules.

Assessment Instructions - To demonstrate your competence in this task, you are required to answer the following questions:

1. Explain the principles of website design.

2. Provide a brief description on the following terms and explain their application to CSS:

Use the template below:

Term	Brief Description	Application to CSS
Hypertext transfer protocol
Hypertext Markup Language
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language

3. List ALL CSS rules in your assessment 1 and provide a brief explanation on how they affect document styling, and layout. Use the template below and add more rows when necessary:

Rule number	CSS Rule	Explanation
1
2
3

4. If there's any, provide a brief description on the techniques that you've applied to correct the browser incompatibilities encountered on the website in Assessment 1 using Chrome and Internet Explorer. Provide a screenshot of the incompatibility.

If none, use the template below to provide a comparison screenshot between the browsers Chrome and Internet Explorer.

Note: for Mac users, you may use Safari in place of Internet Explorer.

5. Outline all World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards, and explain their application to web design.

Key Requirements - The learner must be able to demonstrate knowledge on the following:

1. Principles of website design.

2. Describe hypertext transfer protocol and its application to CSS.

3. Outline and apply, hypertext markup language and extensible hypertext markup language.

4. Outline CSS rules and how they affect document styling, and layout.

5. Explain W3C starndards as they a, pply to website design.

6. Identify and apply, techniques to correct browser incompatibilities.

Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar